The recent Bafta nominations for Sean Bean and Stephen Graham after their performances in Accused, in which the pair of these notably unladylike actors compellingly danced around the issue of transvestitism, reminded me how I thought at the time that no one would ever top that as a sensitive study of a tricky subject.

I’m not about to make some extravagant claims for the smaller but equally perfectly formed Playhouse Presents: Mr Understood (Sky Arts 1). It’s a size 8 of a TV show compared with Accused, which is more of a 16.

But the touching and inventively told tale of reluctant young tranny Gary (Tom Brooke), struggling to find his place in life, would make a cracking double bill with the Bean and Graham drama.

Using the potentially irksome but actually rather effective device of providing Gary with an alter ego called Frank, a conduit for all the fear and loathing sloshing around in his system, worked a treat. Stripped of his outer mask, we saw the real Gary – and how difficult we can find it to be ourselves.